Simon Crane
Known For: Crew
Biography
Simon Crane (born 1960) is a British stuntman, stunt coordinator, second unit director and film director. Crane has been a staple in the stunt world for decades working on several of the biggest action films and franchises in movie history, including several Bond films, Aliens, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Batman, Superman 4, Terminator 3, X-Men 3 and Men in Black 3. When filming Cliffhanger (1993), Sly Stallone paid $1 million dollars out of his own pocket for stunt man Simon Crane to slide between two planes on a cable at 15,000 feet (4.6 km) – making it the most expensive aerial stunt ever, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Like Vic Armstrong and the Powells, Crane has been very popular with the Bond Film Series. Starting out in A View to a Kill (1985), and then he became Timothy Dalton’s stunt double for The Living Daylights (1987) and then graduating to 2nd Unit Stunt Coordinator for License to Kill. Finally in 1995, he was hired as the Stunt Coordinator for GoldenEye, he’s been a 2nd Unit Director or Stunt Coordinator on every film he’s worked since. After the Bond franchise, Simon coordinated stunts for the Academy-Award winning films Titanic and Saving Private Ryan. In 2014, Crane won a SAG Award for Outstanding Action Performance By A Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture on the film Unbroken.
Filmography
2024
- The Instigators ... (Second Unit Director)
2021
- Infinite ... (Second Unit Director)
- Chaos Walking ... (Second Unit Director)
2020
- Dolittle ... (Stunt Coordinator)
2019
- Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Maleficent: Mistress of Evil ... (Second Unit Director)
2018
- Robin Hood ... (Second Unit Director)
2016
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story ... (Second Unit Director)
- The Huntsman: Winter's War ... (Second Unit Director)
2014
- Maleficent ... (Second Unit Director)
- Edge of Tomorrow ... (Stunt Coordinator)
2013
- World War Z ... (Stunt Coordinator)
2012
- Men in Black 3 ... (Second Unit Director)
2011
- In the Land of Blood and Honey ... (Associate Producer)
2010
- Salt ... (Second Unit Director)
2009
- Surrogates ... (Second Unit Director)
2008
- Bedtime Stories ... (Second Unit Director)
- Jumper ... (Associate Producer)
- Hancock ... (Second Unit Director)
2007
- Stardust ... (Second Unit Director)
2006
- X-Men: The Last Stand ... (Second Unit Director)
2005
- Mr. & Mrs. Smith ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- The Island ... (Stunts)
2004
- Troy ... (Stunt Coordinator)
2003
- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life ... (Stunt Coordinator)
2002
- Enough ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Best Ever Bond as Self
2001
- Lara Croft: Tomb Raider ... (Stunt Coordinator)
2000
- Inside 'The Living Daylights' as Self
- Mel Gibson's 'Braveheart': A Filmmaker's Passion as Self
- Inside 'Licence to Kill' as Self
- James Bond Down River as Self
- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Now Pay Attention 007: A Tribute to Actor Desmond Llewelyn as Self
- Inside The Living Daylights as Self
1999
- The Mummy ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Building A Better Mummy as Self
1998
- Saving Private Ryan ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Elizabeth ... (Stunts)
1997
- Titanic as 4th Officer Boxhall
- Fierce Creatures ... (Stunt Coordinator)
1995
- Braveheart ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- GoldenEye ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- Goldeneye: The Secret Files as Self
- Funny Bones ... (Stunt Coordinator)
1994
- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ... (Stunt Coordinator)
1993
- Cliffhanger ... (Stunt Coordinator)
- The Last Vampyre ... (Stunt Coordinator)
1992
- Alien³ ... (Stunts)
- Project: Shadowchaser ... (Stunts)
- HBO First Look as Self
1991
- Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves ... (Stunts)
1990
- Total Recall ... (Stunts)
1989
- Slipstream ... (Stunts)
1986
- Aliens ... (Stunts)
1985
- Dempsey and Makepeace as Policeman
1984
- Sherlock Holmes ... (Stunt Coordinator)